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“But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“We are born, and at that moment, it is as if we had signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf,”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“human beings are known universally as the only animals capable of lying, and while it is true that they sometimes lie out of fear and sometimes out of self-interest, they also occasionally lie because they realize, just in time, that this is the only means available to them of defending the truth.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“También eran vanos los intentos del comerciante por convencer a Siddharta de que se comía su pan, el de Kamaswami. Siddharta comía su propio pan -decía él-, o más bien, ambos comían el pan de otros, el de todos.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha